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Political Fix

US election countdown: Medical watch and a tamed Trump

Political Fix

Financial Times

News, Politics, News & Politics

4.21.2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2016

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Has Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway successfully tamed the Republican candidate? Will Hillary Clinton's comments on Trump's "deplorable" supporters help or hinder her campaign? And why is the candidates' health taking centre stage this cycle? The FT's Demetri Sevastopulo and Courtney Weaver discuss this and more with Neil Munshi. Sign up for the FT White House Countdown daily email at FT.com/NBE.Clip courtesy of Zoco Productions, LLC.

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And from Washington, D.C. I'm De Vitrice Vistopulo.

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And in Las Vegas, Nevada, I'm Courtney Weaver.

0:48.0

The Canada's health came into focus on the campaign trail this week after Hillary Clinton abruptly left a September 11th

0:54.3

memorial event and her campaign later announced that she had been diagnosed with

0:58.4

pneumonia. The campaign was criticized for lack of transparency, what former Obama advisor David Axelrod called

1:05.8

an unhealthy pension for privacy.

1:08.3

They tried to remedy that by releasing further medical records and details about the diagnosis this week, while her opponent,

1:14.8

Donald Trump, revealed a short summary of his own health on Dr. Oz, the U.S. medical talk show.

1:21.0

I feel as good today as I did when I was 30. As Clinton rested at her

1:25.2

home in New York, running mate Tim Kane and President Barack Obama were out

1:28.9

campaigning on her behalf. We cannot afford suddenly to treat this like a reality show.

1:37.0

And Trump looked beyond Clinton's pneumonia to focus on comments she had made earlier about his supporters belonging in a

1:44.8

so-called basket of deplorables. Well my opponent slanders you as deplorable and

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